Description
GLAMkit: a harder, better, faster, stronger way to write reusable Django code
Presented by Dr. Greg Turner (the Interaction Consortium)
As part of our web development work for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (the so-called GLAM sector), we have open-sourced the common tools and design patterns that we have developed as a web framework called GLAMkit (http://glamkit.org/).
GLAMkit is based on Django, and is inspired by its design philosophy of several apps which implement specific features. However, by looking at the successes and challenges faced by other CMSes and collections of apps such as Pinax, we have taken the philosophy a stage futher.
Rather than being a collection of Django apps, we have constructed GLAMkit as a collection of optional and reusable Django 'toolkits' for implementing common features. We leave the implementation details - the things that Django already does brilliantly - to the application developers themselves.
In this talk, we will present the history of GLAMkit's development, with particular focus on how our approach to reusability came about, and some examples of that approach.